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The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea

Another View 2019 / To thávma tis thálassas ton Sargassón / Greece, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden 2019

Directed by Greek New Wave director Syllas Tzoumerkas, this thriller maintains its grip on the audience as it cloaks its realistic, socially-critical intent in a tale at once disturbing, eerie, dreamlike, and spiritual, benefitting greatly from its ensemble cast of charismatic individuals.

The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea

Synopsis

Former elite detective Elisabeth has become the police chief of the godforsaken town of Messolonghi, and she does nothing to hide her bitterness and her hatred of the place. Rita, a worker at an eel farm, is a captive of her social status and her manipulative brother, a star at the local disco. A suicide roils the oppressive provincial air and forces Elisabeth to investigate the corrupt state of the local elite. Directed by Greek New Wave director Syllas Tzoumerkas, this thriller maintains its grip on the audience as it cloaks its realistic, socially-critical intent in a tale at once disturbing, eerie, dreamlike, and spiritual, benefitting greatly from its ensemble cast of charismatic individuals.

Vít Kořínek

About the film

121 min / Color, DCP

Director Syllas Tzoumerkas / Screenplay Youla Boudali, Syllas Tzoumerkas / Dir. of Photography Petrus Sjövik, F.S.F. / Music Jean-Paul Wall, drog_A_tek, Phoebus / Editor Andreas Wodraschke / Art Director Jorien Sont / Producer Maria Drandaki / Production Homemade Films / Coproduction unafilm, PRPL, Kakadua Filmproduktion / Cast Angeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis, Youla Boudali / Sales New Europe Film Sales

About the director

Syllas Tzoumerkas

Syllas Tzoumerkas (b. 1978, Thessaloniki). Selected filmography: I Kalothanati (1998, short), The Devouring Eyes (Ta matia pou trone, 1999, short), Rain (Vrohi, 2002, short), Homeland (Hora proelefsis, 2010), A Blast (2014), Out of Place (2017, doc., film segment), The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea (To thávma tis thálassas ton Sargassón, 2019)

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E-mail: [email protected]

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Ewa Bojanowska
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Syllas Tzoumerkas
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Angeliki Papoulia
Actress

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